Quotes About Deception

Impressions and appearances that do not correspond to reality must be contrasted with others that do correspond to reality, or else the contrast between appearance and reality is meaningless.

Beauty is only skin deep.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

[Burke] is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries

All this is nothing better than the jargon of a conjuror, who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Priests and conjurors are of the same trade .

Those three means are Mystery, Miracle, and Prophecy. The first two are incompatible with true religion, and the third ought always to be suspected. As mystery answered all general purposes, miracle followed as an occasional auxiliary. The former served to bewilder the mind, the latter to puzzle the senses. The one was the lingo, the other the legerdemain. As Mystery and Miracle took charge of the past and the present, Prophecy took charge of the future, and rounded the tenses of faith.

There are stages in the business of serious life in which to assume is cruel, but to deceive is to destroy; and it is of little consequence, in the conclusion, whether men deceive themselves, or submit, by a kind of mutual consent, to the impositions of each other.

they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! it is quite another thing, it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy;

False testimony is always good against itself.

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I proceed to speak of three principal means that have been employed in all ages, and perhaps in all countries, to impose [religion] upon mankind. Those three means are Mystery, Miracle, and Prophecy. The first two are incompatible with true religion, and the third ought always to be suspected

Yalan söylemek kolayd?r ama devam ettirmek zordur.

thought she was his beard, but she was

They sent her to the fourteenth floor, which Elle knew was always the thirteenth mislabeled for the people whose idea of the borderline between reality and nonsense was flexible.

Holy shit! It wasn't them; it was him!

two-bit hack politician who ran for

She had decided that the women wouldn't be wearing overly conservative, modest clothes. If a woman was up to no good, she would want to look like the majority.

she sprayed the inside of the car with the fire extinguisher and tossed it on the floor in the back seat, left the keys in the ignition, and walked away. "What was that for?" asked Pete. "The spray is just carbon dioxide. It'll be gone in a little while, but so will the fingerprints. If somebody traces the plates, they'll have a problem because the car's not registered in Colorado. It might buy us some time to make them trace it in other states.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.